By Sue Brinkerhoff Bland Last night, I watched one of the most amazing soccer tournaments ever played. Today, I read our local sports pages with the hope of reliving some of the fantastic moments I witnessed in the U.S. v Japan Women’s World Cup Soccer event. Ironically, our American women competed and won the world title the day after Independence Day. We...
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Gail Kent, President: I was so excited and expectant in planning VPC’s first strategic planning retreat, not exactly sure would come from the experience, but feeling that if we made a space for magic, it might just happen, and it did. Members of the board spent a weekend in March examining our organization to determine what is working, what is not and how we...
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By Martha Steger At Iceland’s Blue Lagoon this past September the geothermal pool’s green-blue, misty warmth enveloped me. Soothed, I looked out over permafrost in the distance and pondered the erupting Bardarbunga volcano far away in central Iceland — venting lava and fumes in earnest for a month. As neat as the exotic locale was, I decided it didn’t have...
Read MoreVirginia Professional Communicators members are invited to submit work produced during the 2014 calendar year for the 2015 VPC Communications Contest, an online electronic communication contest. The contest is open to non-members as well. To enter the contest, go to http://NFPW.org/CommunicationsContest.cfm. The new web page provides links for navigation...
Read MoreBy Martha Steger Journalism groups as well as other organizations were quick to jump on the “Je Sui Charlie” bandwagon after the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. When I received a mass-distributed NFPW email seeking signatures for a freedom-of-speech (including freedom from self-censoring) message, I immediately thought of NFPW members (including a lot of us in VPC) who...
Read MoreBy Jennifer M. Drummond I originally didn’t plan to attend the 2014 National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) Conference in Greenville, SC. Since I received a scholarship (so thankful!) and it was close enough for me to drive from Richmond, I put aside my fears and committed to the event. As if the scholarship was not enough, NFPW gave me a mentor for the...
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Are you are a journalist, PR person, freelance writer, author, blogger or other communicator looking for a compatible professional organization in Virginia – a place where you can learn how to market yourself and your work? A place where you can hone your skills through excellent professional development meetings? A place where you can make friends and find support?...
Read MorePresident Bonnie Atwood 804-358-3745 bonatwood@verizon.net Freelance Writer, Tall Poppies Freelance Writing LLC First Vice-president – Membership Gail Kent 757-930-0032 (office) 757-876-5420 gail.kent@thebuzzfactoree.com The BuzzFactoree, Newport News Second Vice-president – GalleyPruf VACANT Third...
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The Spring Conference was held in Farmville, VA, at Moton Museum, a national historic landmark, ground zero for equality in American education. Sixty years ago this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education (1954), a case that desegregated schools and had a 16-year-old Farmville, Virginia girl at its roots. Barbara Rose Johns was that girl....
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